Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-11-06

Arab rebellion in Yemen. Redif made
little Roadway and retired from the field
under the plea of illness, leaving Moukhtar
the conduct of operations. Hesoon finished
the campaign, taking by assault the city of
Yedz. For this feat he became a General
of Division. The Governor of Yemen
being recalled to take high Office in Con-
~stantinople, Moukhtar succeeded him with
the full grade of Mushir, being only just
turned t~hirty-three years of age. He JUS
titled his promotion by storming the city
Of Sana and putting an end to the rebel
lion in South Arabia. Since then he has
been Minister Of Public Works, Governor
OF Bervte, where he was popular even with
the Greeks; in command of the Shumla
Army Corps, where he made the fortifca-
tions which the Russians did not think 1t
well later On to attack; in commant OF the
ErzerOum Corps, in command of Bosnia
and Herzegovina in the last M~OnteDegrin
campaign, where it Is said he won
twenty fights and was only
beaten once; again Governor of Crete
nominally, but before he could 60 there he
was sent to Erzeroum TO make a scramble
against the Russians, whom he m~anoeuvred
back to their own frontier, being ultimate
ly beaten for want of men n money.
After the Armenian campaign he was
charged with the defence of Constaptinopie
against the Russian advance, and has been
head of the Council of War. When the
last Cretan rebellion broke out he went 10
Gambia "a Governor, and made a working
arrangement which gave every satisfaction
that could be given to the Hellenic party
short of the cession Of the island. Indeed,
he went so far in according self-goyernment
to Crete that his mortal enemy, Osman
Pasha, of Plevna, who is very jealous OF
him, had little difficulty in persuading
the Sultan that it would not be safe to
leave him there. So he returned to Con-
stantinOple. In 1895 he was warned that
if the Greek and Bulgarian movement
came to anything like fighting he would
be placed in supreme command on both
frontiers, and have the Mushi's command
ing corps as his Lieutenants, but he did not
believe the plan would work, and before
he had q chance Of being called upon he
was sent as the Sultan's High Commits
sioner to Egypt, where he has been now
for twenty-three months, working zeal
ously against the supremacy of England,
through he looks upon Great Britain as the
only sincere friend of Turkey. Today, at
the age of fifty, lie is the most prominent
subject in the Ottoman Empire. A thor
oroughly old-fashionsd Turk, he is very
religious and at The anne time very lib
eral, being a decided believer in represent
alive institutions to be introduced by de-
grees and built up on the democratic sys-
tenn of village government, which still ex-
lists, though practically wiped out by CEN
tralization, and which, springiug from the
same origin, is analogous to that OF the
Russian Mir. Himself au author Of
"a work on astronomy and another
long completed but not yet pub
lished, he is especially kind to the
representatives Of the press, and has
been censurcd for it or more than one
occasion. Indeed he is far too liberal for
the palace party, and therefore is employ
meut found for him whenever possible at a
distance from the Sultan, who 10 inclined
10 trust much to his advice as that OF
the distinguished Turk of this generation
about whom scandal has never ventured a
word. Moukhtar Pasha is in every sense
of the work an honest man, and, consider
ing his rapid rise, he is "a poor man, having
no possessions but one house in Constan-
tinople aud one with a few acres Of garden
and vines, three miles from Scutari on the
Asiatic side. In the best sense OF
the word he is self-made, ard he
is a typical representative Of how a
rapid rise in Turkey is possible in combi-
nation with honesty and self-respect. Its
one of his favorite sayings that he is mo
politician" and it is rather curious that
the same phrase is constantly in the mouth
ofGen. Lord Wolseley, whose career bears
a certain similarly to his own, but of
whom he has the advantage by nearly four
years. They have both had 'luck," but
in both cases, it is we'll to note, they had
no special advantages to start with, and
the luck would not have carried them far
without a good deal of merit behind it.